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Its sick. SS arc so good. A lot of cool fights that have dramatic weight and narrative importance, which Bleach isn't really able to accomplish again. It'll still have cool fights but with less weight.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Renji may be a loser that never does anything interesting or fun after his first arc but his fight with Byakuya is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the comic so I will always respect him. Yeah, I loved that little bit of bookends where he’s introduced boasting about how great he is before he immediately getting hit by Ichigo (to make the audience think Ichigo actually has a fighting chance), and then he flips the script on Byakuya near the end of the SS arc to once again make you think that he has a chance of putting up a good fight.
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Oct 17, 2022 01:02
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Renji goes from jobber to announcing himself as the wrestling heel and defeating the baby face. Show me a better character arc, I dare you.
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Oct 17, 2022 01:10
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Doc Fission posted:
In fairness, going to soul society does mean that they retain or get their bodies back and remain individuals, compared to the alternative of becoming an eternally hungering monster with good odds of just being subsumed into a mindless beast or overwhelmed by a stronger spirit or outright obliterated from existence and whatever cycle of rebirth exists. It is probably the best outcome from a human's perspective.
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Oct 17, 2022 02:08
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NikkolasKing posted:The Visoreds were the best, most squandered thing in all of Bleach. I loved Shinji and Hiyori's introduction, even though I'm not at all sure how Shinji looked young enough to get into Ichigo's high school.... Have you seen Chad
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Oct 17, 2022 02:17
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Bleach was so good back in the SS arc that I still remember how mad I was when Uryu lost the fight after sacrificing everything.
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Oct 17, 2022 02:35
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It was a draw, but Mayuri is a loving creep and monster so him going “well I’m super hosed up but also I’ve modified myself so that I can just become a slime guy and go into my healing vat to not die and come back eventually” might as well have been a total loss on the level of Chad versus that other captain. How desperate can they possibly have been for R&D people? I haven’t watched the anime but making sure they cast the Frieza voice actor for him was a brilliant move, incidentally.
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Oct 17, 2022 02:45
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Uryu won that fight and it was cool
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Oct 17, 2022 03:07
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Uryu unambiguously won that fight, got the antidote from Nemu and then immediately proceeded to eat poo poo against Tousen, who was still incredibly cool and good.
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Oct 17, 2022 04:07
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And then Kenpachi fought Blind Man and Dog Man and came out on fuckin' top.
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Oct 17, 2022 04:43
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Kenpachi fuckin' rules.
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Oct 17, 2022 04:43
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I always wondered did Kubo plan for Unohana to be the first Kenpachi all along and that's why people would comically freak out when she was around or did he come up with the gag first and then go "what if?"
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I always wondered did Kubo plan for Unohana to be the first Kenpachi all along and that's why people would comically freak out when she was around or did he come up with the gag first and then go "what if?" I think it was pretty early on that they did the usual power level diagrams thing and she was way up there for combat ability, so it probably was a fairly long term thing.
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Oct 17, 2022 05:22
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:And then Kenpachi fought Blind Man and Dog Man and came out on fuckin' top. When he lets the sword impale him and then grabs it ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Kenpachi fuckin' rules.
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Oct 17, 2022 05:28
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The best part of the Quincy arc was when, while all the other captains are getting their bankais stolen and their asses beat by the Giga Quincies, Kenpachi strolls up after having personally killed 3 of them, completely unaffected because 1) he doesn't do bankais and 2) he's super loving strong. The worst part of the Quincy arc is when Kenpachi is immediately curbstomped by (fake) YWACH to show what a huge threat (fake) YWACH is so Yamamoto can curbstomp (fake) YWACH to show off how strong Yamamoto is so (real) YWACH can curbstomp Yamamoto to show how strong (real) YWACH is so Ichibei can curbstomp (real) YWACH to show how strong Ichibei is so (fully awoken real) YWACH can curbstomp Ichibei to show how strong (fully awoken real) YWACH is so (fully awoken real) YWACH can destroy Ichigo's true bankai to- wait, what?
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Oct 17, 2022 06:11
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It's just so loving funny how up and down the morale of #TeamShinigami goes and it makes the manga appear like it has mood swings. "Oh no, we're dying!" Kenpachi appears and someone (I think Kyoraku or whatever) is like, gently caress yeah, we got a Kenpachi. Kenpach is immediately beaten, poo poo's grim again. Yamamoto appears and the Shinigamis are like, you guys are hosed, the old man is angry. Yamamoto kills (fake) YWACH and then (real) YWACH appears and steals Yamamoto's bankai and kills Yamamoto. Oh god we're doomed, our only hope is Ichigo! Ichigo finally breaks free from J for Jail's powers, comes out, kills a Quincy without a second glance, everything's hopeful, the hero's here! Ichigo's sword is broken and the Quincies decide to go away.
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Reading through the manga from the beginning, I’m wondering if Kubo had also had the “Isshin is an ex-soul reaper” twist in mind all along, considering how… incongruous some of his early characterization is with that in mind.
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Oct 17, 2022 07:29
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I think so, since Byakuya (and other characters?) think Ichigo sure does look a lot like Kaien Shiba. Some sort of family connection to the Shinigami is set up early.
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Oct 17, 2022 08:02
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I think a lot of shonen manga is about just sorta coming up with ideas as you go along but Isshin being a former Soul Reaper feels like the sort of thing that was part of the plan from the beginning.
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Oct 17, 2022 08:42
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So, umm, am I gonna get an explanation on how that plays out later wrt Ichigo’s dad literally being a ghost? Is he in one of those spare bodies the soul reapers use for high school slice of life shenanigans and those are just 1:1 human replicas? Also, far, far, far more importantly, is Ichigo ever gonna do that coolass move his shadow persona version did with whipping Zangetzu around like a chain sickle or should I just resign myself to disappointment.
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Oct 17, 2022 09:05
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Last Celebration posted:So, umm, am I gonna get an explanation on how that plays out later wrt Ichigo’s dad literally being a ghost? Is he in one of those spare bodies the soul reapers use for high school slice of life shenanigans and those are just 1:1 human replicas? 1. The Quincy arc explains it. 2. It's Bleach, what do you think? (A: No.)
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Oct 17, 2022 10:13
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I feel like he does it once, but maybe it was filler. I really wanted him to realize that was the right way to use it but he's just a boring butthole.
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Oct 17, 2022 13:37
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Finished the SS arc and yeah, as of the beginning of the Arrancar arc the series is beginning to slip. I know it gets much worse from here too, unfortunately. Between Ishida's dad, the Isshin reveal and Urahara and Yoruichi just showing up in places, the dramatic rescue rate goes up too high and simply does not show any sign of stopping. That no one really questions in the SS arc until the last second why they're using a 20-story-tall ghost guillotine to murder what is essentially an itinerant worker is pretty funny. It's much easier to see the endgame couples in retrospect too. Most of this is how KT has clearly no interest in writing romantic chemistry, but Renji and Rukia are clearly extremely at ease with each other from the outset. They feel like an established couple from basically the second Renji shows up to carry her off from the ghost guillotine. Shinji is a great character, or at least fun to look at. Can't believe I have 400 more chapters of this
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Regalingualius posted:Reading through the manga from the beginning, I’m wondering if Kubo had also had the “Isshin is an ex-soul reaper” twist in mind all along, considering how… incongruous some of his early characterization is with that in mind. Isshin could tell something was up when Kon was in Ichigo's body during the Grand Fisher fight so very likely something was always intended, yeah.
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Doc Fission posted:Finished the SS arc and yeah, as of the beginning of the Arrancar arc the series is beginning to slip. I know it gets much worse from here too, unfortunately. Between Ishida's dad, the Isshin reveal and Urahara and Yoruichi just showing up in places, the dramatic rescue rate goes up too high and simply does not show any sign of stopping. There are still a lot of cool fights and fun stories coming!
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So today's episode... God drat them for leaving off right there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjeR7vUrDvM They still got it
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ArctheNomad posted:So today's episode... God drat them for leaving off right there. bleach is back, baby
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:The best part of the Quincy arc was when, while all the other captains are getting their bankais stolen and their asses beat by the Giga Quincies, Kenpachi strolls up after having personally killed 3 of them, completely unaffected because 1) he doesn't do bankais and 2) he's super loving strong. It's even funnier when we later find out that the quincies he faced were Q, the Question, whose power makes you have an existential crisis and R, the Roar, who just shouts really loud and ended up drowning Qs power
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Electric Phantasm posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjeR7vUrDvM Absolute banger
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Oct 17, 2022 17:48
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When you remember that there are 26 Sternritter
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Oct 17, 2022 18:04
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Petition to change thread title to The new Bleach OP is good
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Oct 17, 2022 18:11
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It's a real good op and in a weaker season it'd probably be a top 3 or even #1 but goddamn fall 2022 has had nothing but bangers
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Where's the missing sternritter (letter N if I recall)
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Stairmaster posted:Where's the missing sternritter (letter N if I recall) N for Nothere
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Oct 17, 2022 18:43
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I forgot much Opie sucks
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Oct 17, 2022 18:48
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Stairmaster posted:Where's the missing sternritter (letter N if I recall) N is the guy that looks like Commissioner Gordon, right? Isn't that him in front of the guy with the cornrows?
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Yeah that's him. He's also one of the handful of Quincy who, at least in the manga, we never learn what his ability is besides that for his neutral special, he wields a gun. IIRC he gets absorbed by Yhwach to power up the guys fighting the royal guard before he gets to actually do anything besides shoot Shunsui's eye out.
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Oct 17, 2022 19:29
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SalTheBard posted:I forgot much Opie sucks Both him and Anthony
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